This will be a top notch technically oriented event, organized by Progress users for Progress users. If you can only do one thing this year, attending PUG Challenge should be at the top of your list.— Michael LonskiPUG Central (DC, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina

We are all excited about the upcoming PUG Challenge Americas conference. Everyone is looking forward to reconnecting in person with the outstanding Progress professional Community!— Paul GuggenheimChicago Area PUG

We're very excited about PUG Challenge Americas. Several of our members look forward to attending!— Joseph M. Towns IIIWashington Progress Users Group President

Rich technical content, a blend of old, current and new, a wealth of networking opportunities, options to explore all Progress technologies, along with the support and backing of PSC? It's the 'Perfect Storm!'— Joseph M. Towns IIIWashington Progress Users Group President

It's time to get the band back together... PUG Challenge-Americas!— Bob BrennanNEPUG President

High on technical content, low on marketing fluff and a fine selection of great beers... PUG Challenge-Americas!— Bob BrennanNEPUG President

There is nothing as sweet as sharing a great beer with good friends while tussling over some technical minutia after hours. Reserve your bar stool today.— Bob BrennanNEPUG President

The networking that takes place in the bar and hallways after hours is as much a part of Exchange's legacy as the various keynotes and formal sessions.— Bob BrennanNEPUG President

I am excited that this conference is being held in the Americas!— Bob BrennanNEPUG President

I am anxious to see many of my old friends again and meet plenty of new ones!— Bob BrennanNEPUG President

The time has come ... for a solid Progress technical conference, at an affordable price, and at an affordable hotel. I'll be there to learn, to teach, to network, to share — and not to spend big bucks for all the fancies.— Arthur FinkMaine Progress Users Group

The Progress community has gone too long without a technical face to face conference. The welcome mat is out for PUG Challenge in New England.— Arthur FinkMaine Progress Users Group

NY Metro PUG members are thrilled at having a low cost, in person PUG conference. No virtual conference can do what an in-person conference can do in terms of networking and peer education.— Ed ShellmanNY Metro Progress Users Group

The QAD and Epicor communities are excited about the upcoming PUG Challenge Americas conference. Members of Northern California PUG will definitely be at the conference!— Jag SomalNorthern California PUG

2018 Sponsor List

Keynote Sponsor

About Progress

Progress (NASDAQ: PRGS) offers the leading platform for developing and
deploying strategic business applications. We enable customers and partners
to deliver modern, high-impact digital experiences with a fraction of the
effort, time and cost. Progress offers powerful tools for easily building
adaptive user experiences across any type of device or touchpoint,
award-winning machine learning that enables cognitive capabilities to be a
part of any application, the flexibility of a serverless cloud to deploy
modern apps, business rules, web content management, plus leading data
connectivity technology. Over 1,700 independent software vendors, 100,000
enterprise customers, and two million developers rely on Progress to power
their applications.

Platinum Sponsor

Servoy offers two products for Progress developers. Servoy web-client for Progress: create web-applications on top of Progress databases and ABL, and respect existing business logic. Servoy mobile for Progress is a native cross-device (iPhone, iPad, Android, etc) platform that allows Progress developers to create mobile applications that can connect to existing Progress database and ABL and can run offline with automatic database synchronization.

Gold Sponsors

Why ProTop? Why White Star Software?

We're different we're better

At White Star Software, OpenEdge databases are our only focus. We've lived and breathed the Progress DBA life for 30 years and we still love it. Our tools are built by DBAs for DBAs and when you work with us, you can be confident that no matter your needs, a senior DBA will be there to help you.

ProTop, the Best OpenEdge Monitoring Tool in the Galaxy

We built ProTop to help our customers avoid costly downtime through comprehensive and proactive monitoring of their Progress OpenEdge environments. If it's important, our agents monitor it, while consuming an insignificant amount of system resources.

Support from the World's top OpenEdge DBAs

You may already have an experienced team supporting your OpenEdge environments, but even great DBAs need help sometimes. From occasional questions and ad hoc support to vacation coverage and guaranteed 24/7/365 support, the DBAs at White Star Software are there when you need them.

Cyberscience is the developer and provider of the Cyberquery report writing / Business Intelligence solution. For 35 years we have delivered customer-centric information solutions. Cyberquery is a high performance report writing and query engine which addresses the full spectrum of information requirements. Cyberquery empowers each individual with the ability to quickly and easily obtain the information they need, in the formats they require and within the schedule they specify. Thousands of Progress sites worldwide use Cyberquery. It is the most compelling BI solution on the Progress Open Edge platform.

For those looking to engage more of your employees by providing them with timely, relevant self-service information, Enterprise Cyberquery provides a flexible and proven web-based deployment architecture to meet your needs. This helps users unlock the potential of their business information by making it available on-demand through the Cyberscience Launchpad portal. For executives, managers and anyone who appreciates the increased bandwidth of visual presentation, we offer the Cyberscience Dashboard. By focusing decision makers on the most important metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) which drive your business, your executive team, managers and employees will have a powerful tool to drive the success of your business.

App Technologies is a leading Progress® and WebSpeed® consulting firm specializing in the development of custom web business applications and application enhancements. In conjunction with its consulting services, App Technologies provides AppPro for WebSpeed, a Progress WebSpeed development framework and productivity tool for web and mobile application development. App Technologies has delivered solutions to a wide range of organizations including manufacturing, bio-medical, automotive, print services, software development, and retail businesses.

Consultingwerk is the leading and independent provider of OpenEdge
development tools for application modernization, application architecture,
OpenEdge GUI for .NET, Mobile and Web applications. With over 15 years of
experiences Consultingwerk offers application modernization services which
help companies to modernize their legacy systems to increase customer
satisfaction, enhance flexibility, lower risk, and reduce operational
costs. The comprehensive consulting services include: assessment, analysis,
prototyping, training, coaching, mentoring and implementation.
Consultingwerk was awarded the 2017 Community Service Award by Progress, is
a founding member of the Common Component Specification initiative and is a
Progress Service Delivery & Technology Alliance Partner.

The SmartComponent Library is the standards compliant framework for
OpenEdge GUI for .NET, Angular, Kendo UI, mobile devices, RESTful clients,
OpenEdge BPM and Corticon designed to modernize existing OpenEdge
applications as well as to start new projects. It provides rich
functionality at design time and at runtime and allows integration with
existing frameworks while providing flexible customization options. The
SmartComponent Library is based on the OpenEdge Reference Architecture and
was the first framework to implement the Common Component Specification
(CCS) thus allowing the flexible reuse of business logic in any kind of
user interface or consumer, facilitating and improving the capabilities of
the object-oriented ABL.

FWD is an open source toolset for modernizing 4GL applications.

Explore. FWD Analytics provides tools for reporting, statistics and
analysis which exposes the inner workings of an application, revealing
every language feature, variable, field or table reference, and dependency
via detailed reports. Users can search for arbitrary 4GL syntax patterns to
find exactly what they want in their application, across millions of lines
of code. Leverage the FWD Call Graph Analyzer to identify dead code and
program dependencies, often reducing the size of an application by 25% or
more.

Transform. FWD Transform enables fully automated transformation and
modernization of entire applications without a manual rewrite. This
technology can yield transformed 4GL source code. For example, the
technology can be used to separate business logic from user interface
without a manual rewrite. Alternatively it can be used to convert entire
applications into a Java version that is an identical replacement for the
original 4GL. No other modernization solution comes close to the
capabilities provided in FWD.

Transcend. FWD Enhanced Runtime is a 4GL compatible replacement for
OpenEdge. This Java runtime environment provides compatible execution of
4GL applications which have been converted to Java using FWD Transform.
Deployment and execution of 4GL code (GUI, ChUI, batch, appserver) occurs
without any need for OpenEdge. Leverage the rich Java ecosystem by easily
integrating any Java technology into your existing 4GL code. Take advantage
of 4GL enhancements which only exist in FWD. For example, entire GUI
applications can be deployed as a web application without a prohibitively
costly manual rewrite. The fully automated conversion process allows
re-running conversion at any time. This enables development to continue in
the 4GL while deploying in Java.

Golden Code Development is the engineering team behind the FWD project.
Golden Code is a software consultancy which has been offering high
leverage, enterprise software solutions since 1995. Learn more about the
FWD project at https://www.beyondabl.com
and about the Golden Code team at https://www.goldencode.com.

Silver Sponsors

Deep Knowledge

With over 25 years of experience in Progress software, our knowledge is
extensive. We offer a team of programmers with the skills to handle just
about any support need. Specializing in support for users of Progress-based
ERP solutions, we are experts in WDS II, Symix, Syteline, Distribution One,
Infor and Titan. Allegro is also a leader in OpenEdge integration having
completed numerous successful projects resulting in business efficiencies
and increased profits for many of our clients.

Innovative Products

Allegro offers a number of innovative products, most notably, OneSource
ERP. Our ERP integrated ecommerce solution is aimed at helping
manufacturers and distributors easily sell on the web using Magento, the
premier e Commerce solution. We have also created a wide variety of modules
to enhance the functionality of our customers’ implementations, giving
them the flexibility to create the solution that best suits their needs.

Leaders in Business

Allegro has established a reputation for excellent customer service and
high quality by providing the best advice and technical services to
business and government. We are a well-known and trusted resource of
skilled programmers. Allegro is actively involved in the development
communities of Magento, Joomla, osCommerce, and SugarCRM with valuable
modules donated to their respective user bases.

Roundtable Software is recognized globally as a leader in providing best-practice change management solutions for the Progress Software OpenEdge development environment. Roundtable Software's product line includes Roundtable TSMS, a software configuration management solution for Progress OpenEdge development, and Roundtable Team, an Eclipse-based version control solution. Roundtable Software is a Progress technology alliance partner.